Word: cafeteria
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...bomb was dropped at noon, when the students were lunching in the school cafeteria. (Charges were made that the alert was not sounded until afterward.) Ordinarily many of the children would have gone home for their noonday meal, but on this day they had stayed to see a performance of Midsummer Night's Dream...
With two complete counters, each including a coffee urn, refrigerator, and steam tables to keep food warm, they manage to serve 30 men per minute, cafeteria style, thus completing the whole feeding in an hour. The men eat from the Army regulation trays at 60 tables seating ten people each, in a high-well-lighted room. As the students enter the dining room, a large locker is at their disposal to hang coats and hats...
...Navy, convicts make submarine nets; make or recondition buoys; repair hundreds of shoes; do laundry. They are making 300,000 Navy pillowcases, 40,000 mattress covers, have turned out 10,000 Navy cafeteria trays and only await metal to turn out 100,000. The prison's furniture shop has made hundreds of night sticks for the California State Guard; the jute mill makes sacking for sandbags, the machine shop repairs Navy valves...
...doors Sunday to admit the first of the 3,000 shipyard workers it was built to house-75% single men, 25% married men who live there on weekdays because home is too far away, or will be after Dec. 1 gas rationing. Its 69 frame buildings, community center, cafeteria (seating 900), gymnasium-auditorium (capacity 1,350) are spread over eleven city blocks all within rifle shot of three big shipyards-California, Bethlehem and Consolidated-so that its tenants can walk to work...
...need for factory feeding is as old as U.S. industry, but now is acute. Some war plants are so huge that it would take a worker his entire lunch period just to get to a central cafeteria and more than that to get out the gate; some production jobs are so hush-hush that workers are locked in for their entire shift. Nobody knows how many millions factory feeders gross annually, but it is a big regional business...